The Parables of Christ no. 8
The Two Sowers of Two Different Seeds
Rev. Brian Kocourek
MATTHEW 13:24 ¶ Another parable put he
forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which
sowed good seed in his field: 25 But while
men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went
his way. 26 But
when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the
tares also. 27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him,
Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? From whence then, hath it
tares? 28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this.
The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up? 29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root
up also the wheat with them. 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and
in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first
the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into
my barn.
Notice Jesus points out the fact
that two very different types of life (seed) will be planted alongside of each
other in the same field. The field represents the world, and the sowing is done
first by the owner of the field, and then his enemy comes into his field and
imitates his sowing, but with a different life (seed).
The facts of this parable are as
follows:
1) There
is one field that the seed is placed; ie, a woman, we
are husbandry,
2) There
are two sewers, or sources of seed the owner of the field, and his enemy.
3) There
are two seeds sown, identifying two different life forms and natures. Wheat and tares.
4) The
tare seed is an intrusion but is allowed to grow up alongside of the wheat
until the harvest, for the sake of the wheat, until the wheat is mature enough
to withstand a separation.
5) Separation
warfare always
6) There
is to be a binding and bundling of these tares.
7) The
tares are destined for burning.
8) The
Wheat is to be gathered but not bundled and is to be placed in the storehouse
of the owner.
Notice the two seeds are allowed to
grow up side by side until the time of the harvest. Then a separation is to
take place. First there will be a gathering together of the seed, which the
enemy sowed. The Tares will begin to gather together first.
Jesus uses the word "deo" in describing this binding together. The
word actually means to bind by placing under obligation. Now, this binding is needed in order to
control the assembly of tares. And by
placing the people under obligations, which take them from the word, we see
that organization has bound the people, keeping them from searching further for
more light than what is available in their church. This is done through
programs… Look at every big church and you will see that the people are not
content to come and here the minister preach, but you will find many programs
going on in those churches. The larger the congregation, the
more programs to keep the people content.
After the tares are bound, Jesus
tells us they are then placed into bundles. Now in using the word bundle, Jesus
is telling us that there is a certain characteristic concerning the binding
together. Although the word for bundle, is a word
which can mean "binding," Jesus used two different words in
describing the process which is to take place.
He says the reapers will bind them
into bundles. He never said into one bundle, but into bundles. Thus we see the
word "bundles" further defines the process that these tares
must go through, before they are ready for the burning. They are bound first
and then bundled. The use of the plural tells us that there will be many
different bundles, just as we see there are many different denominations. They
are gathered first. This gathering could suggest a very loose coming together,
but by adding the word bundle to further define the binding process, Jesus
shows us "form and symmetry" and "purpose" will be involved
in how they will be presented for the burning.
A bundle is not just a rag-tag
collection of sticks thrown together in any old direction. But a bundle
suggests to us that all the tares in each bundle will be lined up together, all
going in the same direction. Their
And so we see how organization, is
the means by which the tares are gathered and assembled together. The church is
bound first by a false word, and then by organizing around that false word,
they assemble the people into a more efficient, and profitable means by which
the whole group can be readied for the burning.
Thus we should see clearly that the
False-Vine is the organized church. For organization is what binds them
together. Then, if this be so, one of the main attributes of the false vine
will be its ability to organize in numbers and thus utilize efficiencies to
preach their false Gospel.
Now a bundle does not represent a
loose knit organization, but one, which has structure and symmetry. Every stick is heading in the same direction,
and they are there for the same purpose, and they must conform to some standard
in order to fit within the bundle. Now, let's see if this is not exactly the
picture Jesus Himself speaks of concerning the two seeds.
MATTHEW 13:36, Then Jesus sent the
multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him,
saying, declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. 37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; (Jesus is called by the
title Son of Man 84 times, which is more than any other title used of Him in
the scripture. This title, Son of Man, signifies a prophet. Therefore we see
that a Prophet will come forth, sewing seed). 38 The field is the world; the
good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the
children of the wicked [one]; 39 The
enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the
world; and the reapers are the angels (messengers). 40 As therefore the tares are gathered and
burned in the fire (by messengers to the tares); so shall it be in the
end of this world. 41 The Son of man
shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all
things that offend (Those who would stumble others) ,
and them which do iniquity; (Those who know to do right and will not do
it). 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing
and gnashing of teeth. (This is tribulation period) 43 Then shall the
righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath
ears to hear, let him hear.
Now, in the Epistles of Paul, we are
told of two types of children. Obedient children and children
of disobedience.
I PETER
EPHESIANS 2:1 ¶ And you [hath he quickened],
who were dead in trespasses and sins;
2
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world,
according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
EPHESIANS 5:6 Let no man
deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the
wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
COLOSSIANS 3:6 For which things' sake the
wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
We must understand what Paul was
telling us when he spoke of the children of disobedience. He did not say
disobedient children, but he called them children of disobedience. In other words these are children who were
brought into this world through a disobedient act. Thus they were the product
of disobedience. And if the product of disobedience, they then are the seed of
disobedience. We now know that the seed-life pictured here in this parable
speaks of real people, the children of God and the children of the wicked one,
sown by the devil. These are serpent seed as John tells us in I JOHN
Now, if Cain were the son of Adam
then John could never have spoken such harsh and critical words against him,
because Adam was the Son of God. But we know that Cain was conceived by the
disobedient will of Eve with the Serpent.
Dr. George Ricker Berry in his
Interlinear Hebrew-English Old Testament (Genesis-Exodus) shows the literal
linear translation of the Hebrew Nasha as the
word seduce. Other translations quote Eve as saying, "the serpent beguiled me and I did eat."
Now, whether we choose to use the word beguile or seduce they both have the same
meaning. Strong's concordance, defines this Hebrew word as a primitive root to
lead astray, to mentally delude or "morally
to seduce". Webster's tells us the word seduce, means "to persuade in unlawful sexual intercourse especially for the
1st time".
You can never come to a full and
clear understanding of predestination and election until you see both sides of
the picture. Paul makes this clear for us in the Book of Romans chapter 9. Here
he speaks of Jacob and Esau both born of the same parents, and yet one was a
vessel of honor ordained to be so, and the other a vessel of dishonor. Paul
let's us know that even before the children were born, that the purpose of
election might stand, God said, Jacob have I
loved and Esau have I hated."
Scofield, recognized the very near
resemblance of human stature that the Edenic serpent
possessed in
GENESIS 3:14 ¶ And the LORD God said unto the serpent,
Because thou hast done this, thou [art] cursed above all cattle, and above
every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt
thou go,(Off go the legs) and dust shalt
thou eat all the days of thy life: 15 And I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, and between thy seed and her seed; (Now, this tells us the
serpent had a seed) it shall bruise
thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. 16 ¶ Unto
the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in
sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy
desire [shall be] to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
Now, why would God curse the woman
in child bearing, if she ate an apple. What do apples
have to do with this curse in conception.
Another thing we might consider in
understanding this doctrine of the serpent seed, is
that there were two trees in the garden.
From paragraph 17 of Brother
Branham's sermon Preparation where
he said, In the garden of Eden there
were two trees: one was Life, one was
knowledge. Man left the Tree of Life
to eat off the tree of knowledge.
GENESIS 1:11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the
fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose
seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12
And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding
fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was]
good.
In verse 11 and 12 we see the law of
reproduction. Every seed must bring forth after it's
kind. This word kind spoken of in verse 12 is a Hebrew word miyn
and is pronounced meen. The word means specie and
refers to nature. "Let every seed bring forth after it's
own specie or nature". Therefore, God's Law of reproduction
speaks totally against hybreeding. For
hybreeding would bring together two different specie
or natures and produce a life that is not natural. Then we can see that God's Law of
reproduction is meant to be a protective law that would preserve the specie or
nature that He placed in the seed.
Now, up to this point we also see in
these two verses of scripture that God has placed these seeds upon the earth at this time by His
spoken Word. They are not yet planted in
the earth but the scripture plainly says they are upon (up - on) the earth.
Now, we know that you can not see
Life, you can only see the attributes of life, such as the color, or scent, or
other attributes such the texture, growth rate etc. Therefore life is a spirit.
It is invisible, and can only be seen by it's many
attributes which it displays. When God spoke these words, the seeds that He
placed upon the earth were yet in spirit form. There were no
manifestation of these seeds at this time. But God's Word laid out the
ordained path in which they were to multiply. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the
fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose
seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 12
And the earth brought forth grass, [and] herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding
fruit, whose seed [was] in itself, after his kind: and God saw that [it was]
good.
Now, it would appear here that the
reproduction is already taking place, but it is not. At least not in the
visible sense of the word, for we will see later in verse 14-15 that the sun is
not yet created, and if no light of the sun, no life can manifest itself upon
the earth.
GENESIS 1:14 ¶ And
God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day
from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and
years: 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and
the lesser light to rule the night: [he made] the stars also. 17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth 18 And to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was]
good. 19 And the evening and the morning were the
fourth day.
Further more, we will also see in Genesis 2:1-2 that
these seeds are to be planted in the earth and when they are planted in the
earth, then they will grow up out of the earth as God's law dictates in verse
12.
Notice in verse 12 that the earth is
to bring forth. That means that they
would have to come forth out from the earth, but to this point the seeds are
only up and on the earth. They have yet to be planted. But we see in verse 12
the order in which they are to come forth.
Thus we see the following:
#1) In Genesis
#2) These
(logos) seeds are placed up and on the earth
#3) They are
waiting there planting in order to spring forth into manifestation up and out
from the earth.
This then is the order in which they
are to come forth.
Then if we carefully read on in
chapter 1, we see all the animals and all the creatures of the sea being spoken
into existence and then, finally man. GENESIS
Now, if we continue reading in
chapter 2 we shall find that this is not another account of creation, but a
continuation of the same creation account. In chapter one, we see only God's
spoken Word going forth, and speaking into existence, spirit beings. But in
chapter 2, we see God clothing these spirit beings with the dust of the earth.
GENESIS 2:1 ¶ Thus the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God
ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his
work which he had made. 3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
4 ¶ These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were
created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, Notice this word
generations is used. It is a Hebrew word, towldah
pronounced to led aw, and means the proceedings, or the account of or the results of
the creation. 5 And every plant of the
field before it was in the earth,
and every herb of the field before it
grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and [there
was] not a man to till the ground.
Now, I want you to notice then, that
we are only given an account of the creation up to this point, as the spoken
word life, (the spirit life) of each seed and animal. We know this to be true
because we are told that this account of the proceedings is before it was in the earth. 5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew 6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and
watered the whole face of the ground. 7
And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Now,
in chapter 1:26-27 we see that God had already created man in His Own Image.
Now, notice here
that up to this point God had created man in His Image. And we know that, "God is a spirit, and
they that Worship Him must worship Him in Spirit and Truth", because that is what Jesus told us Himself in John
Now, we see in Genesis 1:26 God speak
it, ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: And in
verse 27 God performs what He spoke… 27 So God created man in his [own] image, in
the image of God created he him;. Then
in chapter 2 we see God cloth man in dust, giving him manifestation 7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Before we go any further, let's just
clear up a few things right here. God is speaking and God said, Let
us make man in our image, after our likeness: Now, who is He
talking to here? He says, Let us! And then
He says our Image! Who is the Image
of God in the first place?
Hebrews 1: 1-3 ¶ God, who at sundry times and in divers
manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the
prophets, 2 Hath in these last days
spoken unto us by [his] Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom
also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the
express image of his person, (The expressed image... or the out-raying or
etching of God.) and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had
by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on
high; 4 ¶ Being made so much better than the angels, as
he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. 5 For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my Son, this day have
I begotten thee? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a
Son?